I recently ordered a refurbished Dell Latitude.  Wow, is it small!  So far I love it.

So I bump into a friend of mine who is a quasi-tech geek and I showed him my "tiny" laptop.  He smiled benignly and took out his impossibly small Asus eeepc which is both solid state and open source.  Granted, it's light on storage, but impressive in its microscopic-ness.

"This," said my friend sagely, "is where it's heading."

He's right, it would seem.  IBM announced today that it is making available a "Microsoft-free" PC.  OK, it's not solid state, but IBM offering open source?

They say that fashion goes in cycles and what's out of fashion today will surely come back.  In computers that may not be exactly the same, but, in the article I read, it certainly sounds like the mainframe concept is trying to make a comeback.